IT Program Finance Governance Lead

IT Program Finance Governance Lead

Requirements

• 10-15 years of experience partnering with senior leadership to drive financial governance and accountability across large scale IT transformation initiatives.
• Strong experience in IT program governance, program management, or IT business operations with a financial focus.
• Proven ability to develop and manage financial governance frameworks, business case development, and cost tracking within IT initiatives.
• Expertise in financial reporting, forecasting, and variance analysis at the program level.
• Ability to collaborate across multiple functions, including IT leaders and teams, Finance, Procurement, and business stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to provide insights that drive decision-making.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Establish and administer centralized financial governance processes, including business case administration, funding requests, investment approvals, financial tracking, and reporting.
• Lead efforts to convert program plans into costed, consolidated plans at the IT level, ensuring alignment with budgetary constraints and business objectives.
• Consolidate cost estimates into business cases for IT Leadership Team approval, validate benefit estimates, and track benefit realization. Drive business case reviews to ensure alignment with strategic objectives and approved program plans.
• Track actual program spend versus forecast, ensuring transparency and proactive risk mitigation. Collaborate with Finance to align expenses, cost categorization, and P&L impact.
• Develop and enhance front-end processes, input templates, and reporting frameworks to improve project financial and operational governance. Promote standardization in business case definition, expense categorization, cost-to-achieve tracking, and benefit realization.
• Define and maintain guidelines to promote adherence to governance processes, validate project scope, ensure funding accuracy, and support investment decision-making.
• Provide accurate financial forecasts, variance analysis, and consolidated views of IT program financials at the project, program, and portfolio levels. Deliver insights to leadership on potential risks, cost drivers, and financial opportunities.
• Act as a central governance liaison between IT leaders, Finance, and Procurement to drive collaboration and accountability in financial and operational tracking.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in financial services, insurance, or banking industries preferred.